Not sticking up for anybody,this style of fishing is different to say the least. I've caught plenty in the mouth,I've also snagged plenty. There's a way to fish a blade bait and a way to intentionally snag. The wardens told me there's about 5 percent natural reproduction of eyes . Pymy is a great fishery because it's heavily stocked by both states. Stocked fingerlings work there not fry. Where there's a run of fish in any body of water,they get hit hard. Erie,steelhead,Maumee river gets torched,with eyes and then white bass. Unfortunately most fish are easier or more congregated when they spawn. This spillway thing will never get shut down,there's quite a bit of revenue generated there. Nobody complain about ropes of spawning crappie carried out by buckets,or people pounding big gills off there beds. As sportsmen you have to make a choice, taking a few fish will not affect the over all population,not every eye in the lake heads to the spillway. We all know this lake takes a year round pounding,it's just not a spring thing,leadcore summer trolling takes a huge number also to a small percentage of fishermen. There's an old saying 10 percent of the fishermen catch 90 percent of the fish.You can catch eyes now where water moves, the bridges on the causeway,bridge 20, at the mouth of a small stream in Ohio. The stream the runs behind the school on the propagation side is loaded. It's close now ,but when it opens in May,try drifting a creek chub to to wire. I've killed eyes there,any gravel or sandbar will yield eyes, floating Rap11,long A bombers,Bango stick baits,jigs and twister will take fish also. Years age a white buck tail jig tipped.with a small flathead caught plenty. I caught many limits at the Spillway on jigs,but now you can't fish that way,due to the crowd and boats. All I can say it will be over very soon,two more weeks and it's done. I prefer wading the points,and feeling the eye stop my stick bait.Good fishing to all.